Automatic weighing device.



o. 0. ozIAs. AUTOMATIC WEIGHING DEVICE.

APELICATIOII FILED MAY 2B. 18105 I Patgnted Apr. 13, 1915.

2 SKIIETS-SHEET .I www QwNEmWIMI [UNITED STATEsrA-TENT. OFFICE. *I ,n

v AUTOMATIC WEIGHINGDEVICE.

k11; ,5,609 1 specificationofremrsraam. Patented Apr, .13', 1915 I appiieauoanleanay-aaien). seriaiiaseaa( A 'To all 'whom 'it may concern: A spring shown in dottedllines atrF, all ,of said.4 Be itfknown that1,' ORANGE O.- OzrAs, a"l parts being offwell known 'mechanicaly conf l citizen ofv the United States, residing at 'struction andoperating in the r.Well .known Dayton, in'thevcounty ofr Montgomery and way. It' is tobe understood that the scale 50 f5 State'ofOhio, have invented certainnew-lillustratedjisuonly typical'of that type of l and useful Improvements in Automatic scale now'commonlyknown as anautomatic f Weighing Devices; kand 'I do hereby declare4 weighing device and that the. counterfbalf' n the-following to b e a full, clean, and exact f an'cingy means illustra-ted. may be ofpothei l. description of the same, referencD peinghad v.well known kind such, for'r instance, 'as the, tothe' accompanyingk drawings, forming a," 'ordinary pendulum for counter-balancing -partof -thisspecicatiom and tot the figures.. loads ofvarying Weight. Scales of this.l type and letters of reference/marked thereon.4 l as heretofore constructed have' onlyv been This invention relates tothat. type of com. y,adapted forv weighing' in runits of weight vvputing scales'lembodying a relatively large and price, no arrangelnenthaving been here- 70 drum having graduations .thereon indicate; tofore,suggestedwhich would permit ofthe@ ing- Weight and, values,' said ydrum being scale bemgutilized for determining 'vol-,

suitably connected with the'goods receiver umetric quantitiesinaccordance \vitl1 \vell. whereby yit is moved yin proportion to ,the recognized commercial standards .of theday,y

movementotl the goods receiver. to bring the such for vinstance as quarts,l pecks, bushels, 75

indicating graduations totheindicatingpo and fractions thereof employed. in-the sale sition, the `drum and goodsy receiver being 'of vegetables, etc. .To permitvof the I,scale associated 'with suitable counter-balancing. being employedin the saleof goods in acl:y mechanism fdrfcounterlbalancing the weight cordancewith the recognizedvolumetric of the goods 'placedsonthe receiver, suchstandards, the indicating .drum rise,A in ac-So for instance as the Well known; lcounter-bal- -cordance with theupresent ,inventQmgpr ancing springs or 'a ,pendulumweight. vided.- -with a chartlhaving thereon Columns Th object of the invention is toprovide yof graduations of volumetric standards, 4the y a scale'of this type with which `measure graduationsin each columnbeing. previously -Y ,quantities of commodities may be detercalculatedand the price for a givengwcom- 85 soJnined and the price'thereof indicated ina modity is calculated by reference -to the, i convenient and accurate manner, thus en*- Weight ot a volumetric. measure of that. coml A abling the scale to befus'ed `fordetermining modity.; A suiiicient number ofc'olurnnsare volumetric quantities with a Valuation reckprovided for indicating the particular vegeoned on ,they Weight of the goods, the voltables .orcommodities which are toy be han- 90 umetric and value indicationsbeing simul` dledby the scale and the graduations in` i taneously brought, to the reading or yindieach column or foreach commodity are poeating point by:.the movement of the goods vsitioned without reference to the gradua vreceiver when the goods a-re placed thereon. Ytions inthe other column but with reference Referring to the 'accompanying dravvonly; to the,weight of that commodity for 95 f L0 ings-Figure 1 isa conventional illustration the given measure or fraction' of the measof a well-knownz'type of spring balanced ureto be indicated. .l scale in whichr the present invention has Referring particularly to Fig; 2, it will been embodied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View be seen that the drum carries atone point, f of a section of the chart forming the indipreferably a central point,g.raduations G ,100 cating drum of the scale, and having assos indicating weight and .inl parallel columns 'ciated therewith the names of the goods and H are graduations indicating volumetric the price per unit of weight.y quantities of various commodities, 'for in- The conventional f -sca'le illustrated em# stance, in the drawings adopted for illusbodies a casing or framing A, within.. which 'trative purposes, the commodities to be han- 105 is journaledy a relatively large drum seen`V dled are inthe first column cranberries; in through the indicating raperture at B, said rthe second column apples, peaches, and

drumv being adapted to be rotated by pinquinces; inthe third column carrots and ions and'rack bars shown in dotted lines at corn meal; in the fourth column onions; in C, through connections D with the goods retheA fifth columnr turnips and flaX seed; in 554 ceiverfE. The goods receiverand goods the sixth column tomatoes, and in the sevplaced thereon are counter-balanced' by coil enth column beans, beets and potatoes.

- and .value are,

" matic A' drum, thusL the names The columns, it is obvious, may be increased in number as desired for the purpose of permitting the scale to vhandle a greater number of commodities having different Weights for a unit of volumetric measure. The volumetric. measurements adopted and indicatedby the graduations in the columns' are preferably well known standards of quarts and `pecks, and the graduations may be extended to indicate bushels and fractions'of'bushels.

The chart also carries graduated columns indicating values at fixed prices per pound, thus the columns I are columns of valuef indications reckoned at prices per pound ranging from `one cent to ten centsand at l2, 129i, 20, 25, 30, and 35 cents per pound. These rates per unitr of Weight being, of

course, selected to cover a range of prices A the Weight,

at which the commodities sold by volumetric measure are ordinarily employed in commercial usage and may be varied in accordance with such usage.

In embodying the invention in an autoiveighing device the columns of graduations of volumetric measure, Weight as before stated, on the in? dicating drum of the scale which is connected with and adapted to be moved in proportion'to the movement of the goods receiver and the names of the commodities together Withl the rates or price per pound are preferably marked) or located on the casing orfixed framing of the scale in proximity'to thesight opening and in alinement with the columns of graduations onVV the of the commodities 1 are located in the spaces provided for that purpose and indicated at K in Fig. l, While the prices per-,pound are'located in the spaces provided for that purpose and indicated at L in said figure. In Fig. 2 these names and 'prices are shown above the columns of graduations in the relative positions occupied by them in the scale. p

-In making use'of the scale to sell vegetables called for by a volumetric measure standard, a sufficient quantity is placed on the receiver to bring the scale to a balance with the graduation indicating the .desired quantityat the reading or indicating point, and the rate per pound being known to the merchant he ascertains the value by referring to the figures of the proper value column appearing atthe reading or indicating point.

Having thus 'described my invention, what i I claim as new and ters Patent of the United States is- Ina scale for price 'and volumetric quantity of the goods being weighed, a chart having columns of graduations thereon extending .parallel with the planeof Vits movement,

and indicating respectively volumetricquantities, Weight .and vvalues correspondin to volumetric quantities and weight, a xed indicatorl with which 'allof said sets of graduations'register, andfffiXed indices of the character of goods located'in line With ,the columns of volumetric quantities and xedindices of `price located'in line with ,the columns of -value indications, the `arrangement being such that corresponding volumetric,' Weight and value will simultaneously register with the :fixed indications indicator. y ,v

' l ORANGE o. oznis. I Witnesses: i i

I. G. KENNEDY, D. A. DE VANNEY.

desire to secure by Letl simultaneously determining 

